ABSTRACT
Monologic views unashamedly adopt a singular perspective for negotiating the diversity of human experience. They make little or no pretext about being democratic or egalitarian: the experts know; others are there to find out. Dialogism's view of the essentially embedded quality of human experience is inherently democratic. A view that has been emerging in anthropology, referred to as ethnopsychology, when it is joined with a view in psychology that emphasizes "everyday cognition", directs us to the kind of democratization of inputs which is essential to any genuinely democratic approach to the sciences dealing with human nature. A genuinely democratic society is one in which both experts and nonexperts alike contribute to the understandings that are eventually settled on, at least until additional dialogic partners enter the scene to take us on yet another voyage of mutual adventure and discovery.
